Chapter 10

Ruins of the Nelvaan

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We open on an Imperial freighter making a routine run, filled with some unknown cargo. There, a single Stromtrooper was walking though the ship, seeming to go about his business.

"Shade 1 to Shade 5. PROXY do you read?" Renton's voice came over the internal comlink of what turned out to be the Assassin Droid.

"I read you, Master." PROXY said without only over the com link without activating his external audio.

"Do you have visual on the cargo?" Renton asked as PROXY made his way to one of the boxes and opened it.

"Sending visual now." PROXY confirmed as a picture of the cargo.

Inside the cockpit of the Rouge Shadow, Renton and Sabine saw an image of various crystals of different sizes and colors inside the chest that PROXY had opened. "Kyber crystals." Renton whispered before looking through the feed of the droid to see various cases of differing sizes that he could only guess had similar cargo.

"What could the Empire possibly need with that many?" Sabine asked

"I'm not in any hurry to find out." Renton said before once again speaking in to the com. "Okay Proxy, listen up. R8 is about to cut all lights to the ship you're on. Once that happens, grab one of the containers, set a charge on another one of them and get the hell out of there." Renton ordered.

"Understood, Master." PROXY said before Renton signaled for R8 to shut down the lights including the emergency lights as PROXY fallowed the orders gave to him and headed to the docking tube and entered the Rouge Shadow before it detached from the freighter and Renton set of the charge which caused the entire ship to go up as the Rouge Shadow decloaked and went in to hyper space to rendezvous with the Ghost.

A few hours later, the Rouge Shadow landed on an ice planet that the Ghost had landed on.

"What'd you find?" Hera asked them as they exited the ship.

"The delivery ships that the Empire has been sending had been carrying a crap load of Kyber Crystals." Renton said, getting the attention of the other Jedi as he activated a hologram showing the shipment they had just blown up.

"That's a lot of Crystals." Maris said in a nervous tone.

"What could the Empire possibly be panning to use them for?" Kanan asked.

"Not a clue." But whatever it is, we need to find out and shut it down." Renton said.

"There will be time for that later." Shaak Ti said. "In the mean time, their is another reason we are on this Planet." She said before nodding to Kanan.

"Master Ti and I sensed a tremor in the Force coming from an area not to far from here." He said before calling out with the force as two White Banthas.

"Renton, Maris." Shaak Ti addressed the two Padawans. "The two of you shall venture in to the wilderness to the source of this tremor." She said.

"What will we find there?" Maris asked her Master.

"Only what you take with you." Shaak Ti said in typical Jedi cryptics. At this, Renton and Maris could only nod to the older Master before walking to the Bantha's. "Your Weapons." Shaak Ti held out her hands. "Leave them here." She said before the two Padawans reluctently handed their Sabers (and Renton's blaster and crush gaunts) to their Masters before getting on the Banthas and riding off.

A couple hours later, the two young Jedi were in the middle of a snowy field. Suddenly, Renton senced somthing nearby.

"What is it?" Maris asked.

"There's a storm coming this way." Renton replied before he looked to the horison and called out to the Force. "You see that cave?" He asked?

"Yeah. Let's move." Maris replied as the two of them rode off. After twenty minutes the two of them arived at a cave that had vines growing over the walls. Upon entering the cave Maris began to shiver.

Renton looked across the walls before he reached up and grabbed some of the some of the vines and pulled them down before stacking them in front of himself and Maris.

"What are you doing?" Maris asked.

"Stand back." Renton said before pointing out his hand and let out a slight amount of white lightning, catching the roots on fire.

"Whoa!" Maris shouted in shock (No pun intended.) before looking over to Renton. "Renton, where did you learn how to do that?" She asked. Renton took a moment before taking the golden Holocron.

"This is the Holocron of Revan." Renton explained.

"Wait. Where did you get Darth Revan's Holocron?" Maris asked.

"Not 'Darth' Revan." Renton corrected. "This was made after he returned to the Jedi." He explained before something caught his eyes. "I'll tell you all about it later." He said before leading Maris to a wall showing some sort of tribal wall art.

The story depicted a tribe of Nelvaan warriors, one after the other going off to battle and being taken by metal men and being turned in to beasts. When all hope seemed to have been lost for the tribe, a one armed warrior wielding a sword of blue fire joined by an old wizard came forth and took up the marks of the Nelvaan warriors and braved the wilds to face the metal men and rescue the warriors. After this event, the tribe left for another part of the planet but would always remember their savior.

"This must be telling the story of a Jedi." Maris deduced as Renton took out a mini camera he had in his jacket pocket for surveillance missions and took a picture of the depiction of the Jedi.

"This is where the tremor was coming from." Renton said. "It's likely just residual energy left behind that Jedi." He reasoned.

"You're probably right." Maris sais before turning to her fellow Padawan. "So, you mind telling me what the deal with that is?" She asked pointing back to the golden Holocron Renton still held in his left hand.

Renton then lad the Zabrak girl over to the fire and began to speak. "I was given this after my trial on Yavin. Since then I've been using it to get a new view on the Force. You see after everything that happened to him in his life, Revan began to think of the Force in an almost Taoist way." He explained.

"Taoist?" Maris asked.

"Take my hand." Renton instructed. Upon doing so, Maris closed her eyes and began to focus as Renton opened his mind to her. Now in her minds eye, she could see the symbol of Yin and Yang.

"This symbol is the basses for what my people call 'Taoism'. An eternal balance between light and dark where one can not exist without the other and one is not completely devoid of the other either. This balance can be found in everything." Renton explained before listing off some examples. Land and sky. Fire and ice. Serenity and passion." He finished in a whisper as his lips where mere inches from Maris'. Upon seeing what she was about to do, Maris quickly pulled back.

"I'm sorry." She said quietly before Renton put his hand on her shoulder.

"Maris, it's okay." Renton began to say. "Being attached to someone isn't bad. Just so long as you remember if you lose them, never to stop being the person they loved." He said, siting Revan's own words after losing his wife.

"I won't lose my way if you don't lose yours." Maris said as she grabbed Renton's hand and leaned back in to his chest.

"It's a promise." Renton said before Maris looked back and kissed him. After a few more minutes of holding each other, the two young Jedi went to sleep.

The next morning, Renton and Maris mounted the Snow Banthas and headed back to the base camp. Once their, the two of them reported their findings. After wards, Renton and Maris went in to the Rouge Shadow where Sabine was waiting.

"So, you explain how things work with us?" Sabine asked Renton.

"I explained everything on our way back." Renton confirmed as Maris blushed.

"Are you okay with this, Maris?" Sabine asked the Zabrak Padawan.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay with it." Maris said with a soft smile before she grabbed Renton's hand.

Renton returned the smile before remembering why he came to Sabine. "Sabine, I need you to do something for me." He said before pulling out his holo camera and handing it to the Mandalorian girl.

"Seems simple enough. Come on." Sabine signaled as she led Renton to the training room where she quickly set up a stool for Renton to sit on. She then signaled for Renton to sit down before he took off his shirt as Sabine grabbed a tattoo gun she kept on hand and went to work in replicating the markings of the nameless Jedi. Renton's reason behind wanting the marks being inspired by one who despite all odds and a glairing disability, this Jedi was able to save an entire army of mutated Nelvaan warriors.

After several minutes, Sabine's work was finished and Renton stood up and called on the Force, pulling his shirt and jacket to his hand. "Well, how do I look?" He asked.

"You mean the ink? Or just in General?" Sabine joked. "Either way, I defiantly like what I see." She said as she kissed Renton on the cheek before Maris did the same. Renton couldn't help but smile at the gesture as he pulled both girls in to an embrace.

That night: Renton was in his makeshift workshop. After running some calibrations on both the droids and the Wraith (The nickname he gave to his V-wing.) he went to his bench and began working on an invention that ha came to his mind from his time with Charles and Ray.

Suddenly a wave of Force power rushed through him. When this accord Renton saw only a black, hopeless void. The kind of thing that would drive you mad if you found yourself trapped in it. While in it Renton heard what sounded like artificial breathing.

Soon enough, the darkness gave way to two planets. One completely devoid of water and orbiting two suns while the other looked to Renton like what he had read in textbooks about the ancient homeland of his people, Earth.

(Insert song: Binary Sunset)

He then saw the silhouettes of two people. The silhouette on the side where the desert planet had been as far as Renton could tell, was male and holding a blue bladed Lightsaber in a Djem So stance while the one on the side of the Earth like Planet was clearly a woman and was holding a gold bladed Lightsaber in Juyo stance.

(End song)

Renton snapped out of the vision and began to think on what it could mean. He'd have to speak with Kanan and Master Ti in the morning. For the moment he could only get back to work while assuming what the vision meant. A darkness that he would need to battle and the allies he would need to recruit to do so.

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Well, there you go. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I haven't decided what will happen next time. Either a trip back to Scoral to catch up with another Force sensitive Eureka 7 character. Or meeting up with one of the young Jedi in Renton's vision. Please vote in the Reviews and until next time and as always... Keep on keeping on.